Basics of Banking: Loans Create a Lot More Than Deposits

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There’s an excel­lent post by John Car­ney, CNBC’s Senior Edi­tor, on the mechan­ics of lend­ing, deposit cre­ation, and how these inter­act with reg­u­la­to­ry and cap­i­tal require­ments. High­ly rec­om­mend­ed:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100497710

I’ll have a crack at mod­el­ing this in Min­sky short­ly; I have already done a sim­i­lar mod­el to illus­trate why reserves lag deposits in almost all coun­tries, so it should­n’t be too dif­fi­cult to knock this illus­tra­tion up in it.

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About Steve Keen

I am Professor of Economics and Head of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University London, and a long time critic of conventional economic thought. As well as attacking mainstream thought in Debunking Economics, I am also developing an alternative dynamic approach to economic modelling. The key issue I am tackling here is the prospect for a debt-deflation on the back of the enormous private debts accumulated globally, and our very low rate of inflation.